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Rock and roll, country, 60s, Liverpool… And the memory helpfully prompts: The Beatles, making the heart beat in unison with the famous hits. The magnificent Liverpool ensemble literally blew up the already intractable and absurd city, and later the whole world. The Beatles, as we all remember, included four performers. But how was a group born in the British bowels, which could turn rock music into an art of global scale and popularity? By the way, none of the members of the Beatles had a serious professional education! However, this is how a legend and original talent is born, which is forged by the will and beats with a revolutionary hammer on the sonorous brass of hearts.
Little boy John Lennon got bored of singing in the church choir. A loving mother gladly helped her son master the harmonica. This turned out to be more than enough for the teenager to have an irresistible desire to create his own team by the age of 15. Thus, The Quarrymen was founded. A year laterthe group was accidentally heard by Paul McCartney near one of the parish churches in the Liverpool area. He played the guitar much better than Lennon, and John appreciated the talent of a teenager and invited him to the group. However, Paul did not come alone, but took his friend George Harrison with him. With the arrival of Stuart Sutcliffe in 1959, the group changed its name to "The Silver Beetles", which translates as "silver bugs".
In 1960, the newly-minted group toured the Hamburg pubs, singing Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Buddy Holly. The drummer at that time was Peter Best, while Ringo Starr played successfully in another Liverpool band. At this time, John Lennon changed its name to The Beatles, and by the end of 1961, the group had a personal manager, Brian Epstein, who dressed the musicians in Pierre Cardin jackets and urged them to let go of long bangs instead of Presley-style hairstyles. The Beatles boss got tempting contracts with European record labels, but it turned out that drummer Best didn't fit the format. The composition of the Beatles had to be changed. On August 16, the musicians announced Best about his departure, and on the 18th the band performed with Ringo Starr.
So, the composition of the Beatles finally took shape in the historical four, which blew up the charts and British concerts. Since the summer of 1963, "Beatlemania" began to grow at a rapid pace. In October of that year, a concert by a popular band that performed at the London Palladium was watched by 15 million Britons. The success of the first album "Please Please Me" wasphenomenal. The magnificent four had to be escorted to the car with a police outfit. By 1965, Beatlemania had reached the shores of the United States. By the way, American music companies were very skeptical about the Beatles and did not release the group's records until 1964, when the EMI management nevertheless took a chance and presented the album "Meet The Beatles" to music lovers. The critics were wrong - the success of the record was stunning. Thanks to this triumph, the Liverpool four received a ticket to the American venues. The legendary hit "Yesterday" was played at the New York Stadium in 1965.
Recording albums, filming in films, performing - the legendary band was at the pinnacle of success. Suddenly, in August 1967, Brian Epstein dies. The Beatles line-up met at McCartney's to decide the future. The collapse of the group was inevitable, each of the participants gradually began parallel individual work, and joint singles lost their collective atmosphere. The Beatles quartet, whose composition had done a tremendous job in the world of musical art, left the stage. In August 1969, the last studio album, Abbey Road, was recorded. In July 1970, Paul McCartney officially announced the end of the Beatles. The legendary four left the listener in the 70s. Their time was the rebellious 60s, but the era of The Beatles will last forever.
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